Ramzi Abed is a film and video director and visual artist based on Planet Earth. He has worked in and around the entertainment industry in every capacity for over 25 years.
Company
Bloodshot Pictures
    Ramzi Abed was born in 1973, the very same year that Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was released on vinyl. He grew up in Dallas, and went to high school at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas.
    In many ways, Ramzi still considers Dallas his home, while Los Angeles, where he resides, also still feels like home too. He then went on to earn two BA degrees at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
    His landmark microbudget cult film, The Devil's Muse (starring Kristen Kerr, Gidget Gein, Cinque Lee), streamed on Netflix for nearly two years and was distributed by Cinetic Rights Management, Gunpowder and Sky, and Halo 8 Entertainment respectively in digital and home video formats. The film streamed on Netflix for over a year, and was also available on multiple digital movie platforms (and is now streaming and on-demand currently at TromaNow, along with his previously unreleased lo-fi found footage video thriller, Clay Fields). Meanwhile, his experimental reality-based thriller, Telephone World (starring Elissa Dowling), was released on home video by Cinema Epoch and is currently streaming on Tubi.
    Ramzi recently directed the music video for "A Free Society", the title song from the debut album by Night Crickets, a jazzy post-punk supergroup comprised of David J Haskins (of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) and Victor De Lorenzo (of Violent Femmes) and renowned musician, Darwin Meiners. Abed's film work has been distributed and also screened at numerous film festivals over the years. His short film, The Tunnel, was edited by renowned filmmaker, David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight), and starred co-writer Casey Wickson, Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger), and Mark Borchardt (American Movie, Coven). The Super 16mm film went on to screen at many festivals all over the world.
    Ramzi currently works as the main Rental Manager at Evidence Cameras, a motion picture camera rental house in Los Angeles. He took a nearly ten year hiatus from making and finishing new films, and is now very hard at work making new movies and completing past projects as he splits some of his time between Pasadena, California and Falls Church, Virgina. Abed also avidly draws, paints, takes photos, reads, writes and makes music in his spare time whenever possible.
    Abed's latest feature films are First Person Savior and Let Love In. First Person Savior stars John Karyus (Foxfur, V/H/S/2, Poultrygeist), James Duval (Nowhere, Donnie Darko, Go!), Dawn Wirth (photographer of the 1970s LA punk rock scene), and is about and reflecting upon gun violence and video games in present-day America. Let Love In, in turn, stars Victoria De Mare (Dust Up, Stripped, The Rideshare Killer) and Ramzi Abed, and is about the search for love and personal peace against the backdrop of the world of adult films. Both films are now finished, and ready for exhibition soon.
    Best Experimental Short Film
    In The Garden
    Venus International Erotic Film Festival
    2024
    Best Actor - John Karyus
    First Person Savior
    Shock-A-Go-Go Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    2024
    Bill Brown Award (for Acting) - John Karyus
    First Person Savior
    Amazing Fantasy Fest
    Buffalo
    2024
    Persistence Of Vision Award - Ramzi Abed
    First Person Savior
    Amazing Fantasy Fest
    Buffalo
    2024
    Best Actor - Gold Award (Ramzi Abed)
    Let Love In
    Pinnacle Film Awards
    Best Actress - Gold Award (Victoria De Mare)
    Let Love In
    Pinnacle Film Awards
    Best Director - Platinum Award
    Let Love In
    Pinnacle Film Awards
    Best Film - Platinum Award
    Let Love In
    Pinnacle Film Awards
    College
    Pitzer College
    Film and Video Production
    19911995
    College
    Pitzer College
    English / Creative Writing
    19911995
    High School
    Greenhill School
    19871991
    Birth Date
    March 5, 1973
    Birth City
    Jeddah
    Current City
    Pasadena
    Hometown
    Dallas
    Height
    5'11"
    Gender
    Male
    Ethnicity
    Mixed
    Eye Color
    Brown
    Zodiac Sign
    Pisces
    I love dreams.
    "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~ Federico Fellini
    Ramzi Abed is a film and video director and visual artist based on Planet Earth. He has worked in and around the entertainment industry in every capacity for over 25 years.
    Company
    Bloodshot Pictures
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